Comp Industry Lags Behind in Tech, but Stakeholders Can Drive Growth, Panelists Say

Workers’ compensation may be as much as 10 years behind other care-related sectors when it comes to applying advancements in technology, a group of industry experts said Thursday. Luckily for comp stakeholders across the country, however, there are myriad opportunities for using more technology, and recent changes already suggest tech can be used to improve claims outcomes for all sides, they said. “I would say it's my rough thumb-in-the-wind that workers’ comp as an entire market feels a decade behind group health,” said Jason Cooper, chief data and analytics off...